Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. would not feel compelled to protect British-French forces in Egypt from Soviet attack). Next day he sent a bristling message to Israel's electric-haired Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who had accepted a cease-fire but stalled on withdrawing his troops from conquered Egyptian soil. Sternly the President reminded Ben-Gurion of "the various elements of our policy of support to Israel in so many ways," and he hoped indeed that Israel would not choose to "impair" these fruitful relations. (Privately, he told Israel it could expect no U.S. help if Israeli delay resulted...
...soldiers from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would be "allowed" to go into the Middle East un less the British, French and Israeli forces withdrew from Egyptian soil. Red China joined in with talk of 250,000 "volunteers" (the difficulty of transporting them to Egypt boggled the imagination...
...this could only be true if none of her familiar Western big-power antagonists were among the interveners, and would not then be sure. But it is highly questionable whether an effective force could be amalgamated from the other U.N. countries, especially when it is considered that the Egyptian affair, has already drained off a large part of the available manpower. Furthermore, some of the nations that saw a responsibility to send troops to Suez might not construe such an obligation for Hungary. If a weak army were sent into Hungary and was shortly defeated, considerable pressure might...
Four years ago Ben-Gurion wrote in his best Biblical style: "Ahead of us are the campaigns and the conquests, the splendors and the portents still to come." As Gaza fell last week, Israel's Ambassador to Britain Eliahu Elath announced that his country had no designs on Egyptian territory. But he added: "Nobody can expect us to lose a military advantage...
Cairo's news output was slowed by snarled communications and muffled by censorship. And, with its airfields under British bombardment, the Egyptian capital was also the hardest place for a correspondent to get to. None made it last week, though some were trying by way of Khartoum and Libya. By commercial plane and chartered flight, 50 correspondents streamed into Tel Aviv. But Israel refused to accredit any foreigners to its forces, gave out the news in meager communiques. Newsmen tried to drive to the front in taxicabs, but the roads were closely guarded, and few made it. Yet they...